Description

TL 16 NE
1/5

BUCKDEN,
STIRTLOE LANE (SOUTH SIDE),
STIRTLOE HOUSE

(FORMERLY LISTED UNDER LUCKS LANE)

24.10.51

GV II

Late C18 brick house of five bays. L-plan with small vaulted
brick cellar, two storeys. Tripped slate roofs and end stacks.
Extended in early C19 by two bays at north and south and to rear
of main range. Brick faces rendered. West facing facade.
Plain parapet. Seven C19 first floor recessed hung sash windows
with glazing bars and four similar ground floor windows.
Central, open, semi-circular, Roman Doric stone portico
approached by semi-circular steps. (Stone portico to rear
facade has a broken pediment supported on Doric columns). Eight
raised and fielded panels to C18 door in recessed round headed
arch. Fanlight with interlaced glazing bars. Rear kitchen
wing, originally with sunken floor has a reset C17 mullion and
transome window. Interior has largely C19 details; open string
staircase, and six panelled mahogany doors in architraved
doorcases.
Home of Lancelot Brown from 1784-90, son of 'Capability Brown'.
VCH Huntingdonshire, p266

Listing NGR: TL1959366831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423406

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets